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♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Ella Kobzeff East Wind Music Studio · Salem, Oregon October 2026 Dear friend, I just published the first lesson on my new YouTube channel, and I made it for anyone starting from the very beginning! Your First Piano Lesson: C Major Scale + 4 Easy Chords In one sitting you'll learn the C major scale and four chords: C, F, G and A minor. Those four chords sit behind an enormous number of songs, and next week's video uses them to learn one. If you downloaded the C major k

You know this song, but do you know the story behind it? In 1859, Anna Bartlett Warner wrote this poem for a dying child, it appeared in a book written by her sister Susan. Anna and Susan Warner were remarkable women who famously supported themselves and families through their writing. They had a significant impact on the military community in New York, teaching Bible classes to cadets for over 40 years. One of the last cadets, was President Eisenhower. They made such an impa